• Rose@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    What’s newsworthy here though? Given that Russia’s demand has been to get the Donbas, which belongs to Russia according to its fake referendum, what would be surprising is it not having its own police in the region.

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      40 minutes ago

      The newsworthy bit would have been the fact that some media outlets spread this under the headline “russia will withdraw troops as well”, missing the point that Rosgvardia is militarised “internal army”, mechanised and equipped with artillery etc. Rosgvardia was among the troops marching on Kyiv in 2022. russia definitely wouldn’t agree to ukrainian national guard staying in the area, though …

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      39 minutes ago

      They already have. Rosgvardiya took very heavy losses in the advance on Kyiv in 2022.